BOS radio system in Austria

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The BOS radio system in Austria was largely based on analog technology until 2006. A digital trunked radio system for radio communication for authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS) under the name "Digitalfunk BOS Austria" is currently being introduced in Austria . The events surrounding the appointment of the second consortium are currently - as part of the telecommunications affair - gradually cleared up.

Temporal course

Adonis

In autumn 2001, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria put out a tender for a BOS radio system under the project name “Adonis”, which should work on the European TETRA standard. Completion was planned for 2005. On April 12, 2002, the bidding consortium Master-Talk was awarded the contract. The order volume for the delivery of the system technology, the construction of the broadcasting stations (approx. 1300) and 15 years of operational management totaled 1.2 billion euros. It was the largest single project the Interior Ministry has ever put out to tender.

Master-Talk was a joint venture between Siemens , Wiener Stadtwerke , Raiffeisen Zentralbank and Verbund . The original plan was to involve all police and gendarmerie departments . Only gradually should other blue light organizations such as fire brigade , rescue services, etc. be involved.

In order to make the entire system more cost-effective, private users should also participate in this radio system in addition to the blue light organizations. The official radio should still be bug-proof. The target was 120,000 participants in total (around 40,000 private participants).

For participants from the BOS area, costs of 1,000 euros per year and radio device were repeatedly rumored. Exact numbers were never published. The fire brigade therefore decided to only take part at management level (i.e. only with a small number of devices), as the costs could certainly not be covered by the individual brigades.

In mid-2003 the project was stopped after disputes between the client and the contractor and the contract was terminated by both sides. The contractor initiated arbitration proceedings against the Republic of Austria provided for in the contract. The interior ministry contested the legality of such a procedure. The Supreme Court finally came out in favor of the legality of conducting arbitration proceedings, which ended in a settlement in October 2006. According to media reports, the Republic of Austria undertook to pay the contractor € 30 million in damages.

Digital radio BOS Austria

Motorola MTH800 TETRA radio that is registered in the BOS Austria radio network

In April 2004, five bidders were invited for a follow-up project by the tendering agency (Ministry of the Interior in cooperation with the State of Tyrol ). Were offered GSM-R , the existing cellular network would exploit, the much more expensive TETRA system and a tetra-like system of EADS . The new project name was no longer Adonis, but "Digitalfunk BOS Austria".

In June 2004, the Ministry of the Interior awarded the contract to a consortium made up of Alcatel , Telekom Austria and Motorola . The costs for the Ministry of the Interior should now be less than half of the Adonis system. This is to be made possible by the fact that the Ministry of the Interior does not assume the financing alone, but also that the federal states co-finance the system by providing locations and assuming the costs of setting up and maintaining the location.

The Telekom Austria rose from beginning of the project from the consortium. Motorola now holds 65% and Alcatel 35% of the construction and operating company (TETRON Sicherheitsnetz Errichtungs- und BetriebsgmbH).

The nationwide completion of the follow-up project “Digitalfunk BOS Austria” was originally planned for 2009. This date could not be kept due, among other things, to the lack of participation commitments from individual federal states. In January 2006, Tyrol and Vienna were the first federal states to go into operation. The expansion in Lower Austria and Styria followed.

In addition, a new warning and alarm system (WAS) was set up in Tyrol, which was fed into the existing TETRA network. At the beginning of 2008, all network infrastructures were completed.

In Lower Austria, the system was put into operation in April 2010 after two years of trial operation with around 10,000 radios on site. In addition to the blue light organizations (fire brigade, rescue service, police), the armed forces and the road maintenance authorities are also involved .

After the governor of Salzburg, Gabi Burgstaller , had prohibited the introduction of the system in the state of Salzburg until further notice on September 5, 2011 - after the allegations within the Telekom affair became known - there was a restart in 2014 under her successor, Haslauer Should be finished in Salzburg in 2017.

Almost at the same time as Burgstaller, the Carinthian governor Gerhard Dörfler stopped the project.

Currently (October 2015) the federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg, Upper Austria and Burgenland have confirmed their commitment to set up and participate in the BOS Austria digital radio network or have started to set up the network.

Vorarlberg has been operating a nationwide, analog trunked radio system since the early 1990s. Participation in digital radio BOS Austria depends on the availability of spare parts for existing devices and any modernization options for the analog trunked radio system. In mid-2018, the state government awarded the contract for general planning in the state.

While digital radio was set up throughout Austria in 2017, there is no way to build the network in Carinthia due to the financially strained situation. The only exception here is the city of Klagenfurt .

While Carinthia had not yet started the project in mid-2018, the conversion was completed in the state of Salzburg . In addition to the blue light organizations, operators of critical infrastructures such as hospitals, energy suppliers or banks were equipped there to be able to communicate with one another in the event of a crisis or disaster. There are 30 companies that were included in these plans. In 2018, businesses of this type were also equipped with radios in Tyrol. The ORF center as well as the Transalpine Ölleitung or the TIWAG were named as examples . It is also intended to be used in the event of interference from hacker attacks .

The project in Burgenland was completed in 2019. There are also 66 digital radio stations that are also equipped with an emergency power supply.

technology

The digital radio service is operated on the BOS frequency band (380 MHz to 400 MHz). The technical basis is the TETRA standard developed in the mid-1990s .

See also: paging name

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  1. ↑ Manufacturer Rohde & Schwarz press release before dissolution (PDF file; 294 kB)
  2. ↑ Press release after the dissolution
  3. ↑ http://www.tirol.gv.at/themen/sicherheit/katziv/projekte-funk/
  4. ↑ Radio system in Lower Austria united on ORF of April 29, 2010 accessed on April 29, 2010
  5. ↑ profile: Cost trap, September 12, 2011, page 25
  6. ↑ Emergency services get digital radio on ORF -Salzburg from February 27, 2014 accessed on February 28, 2014
  7. ↑ Styrian blue light radio comes despite the vortex. Kleine Zeitung , September 15, 2011, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 .;
  8. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/k/kaernten/4183117/Ueber-20-Millionen-Euro-fur-Digitalfunk
  9. ↑ http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Service/_news/start.aspx?id=744D33716A6E4F515875673D&page=0&view=1
  10. ↑ http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Service/_news/start.aspx?id=532F6D5674484D71752B773D&page=0&view=1
  11. ↑ Comprehensive digital radio for all rescuers from 2018. In: ooe.orf.at. June 15, 2015, accessed November 4, 2018 .
  12. ↑ http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Service/_news/start.aspx?id=6858787071766D4C314B303D&page=1&view=1
  13. ↑ http://suche.vorarlberg.at/vlr/vlr_gov.nsf/0/53AEBE3C2605C6E3C1257CC90058F4E1/$FILE/29.01.612.pdf
  14. ↑ http://www.vorarlbergernachrichten.at/2015/07/Anfragebeantwortung.pdf
  15. ↑ General planning for new digital radio awarded on ORF from August 19, 2018, accessed on April 9, 2019
  16. ^ Digital radio: Too expensive for Carinthia on ORF from April 10, 2017, accessed on April 10, 2017
  17. ↑ BMI: Clarification regarding digital radio implementation in Carinthia on OTS from June 7, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2018
  18. ↑ Digital radio now also for hospitals & Co. on ORF-Salzburg from June 28, 2018 accessed on June 28, 2018
  19. ↑ Better protection for clinics, Tiwag & Co on ORF-Tirol from June 28, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2018
  20. ↑ Digital radio: coverage in an emergency on ORF from April 9, accessed on April 9, 2019

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